Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Ecuador and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Livin' Joy,
Nick Fraelich,
Neil Young,
Boz Scaggs,
The Fortunes,
The Slits,
Subhumans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Max Romeo,
kango's stein massive,
Cheater Slicks,
Derrick May,
Royal Trux,
Toni Rubio,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Banda Bassotti,
Moss Icon,
These Immortal Souls,
Gang Green,
The Shadows of Knight,
Delta 5,
Marcia Griffiths,
Adolescents,
Ronan,
X-102,
Bauhaus,
Fluxion,
LL Cool J,
Todd Terry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crooked Eye,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eddi Front,
Talk Talk,
Severed Heads,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kevin Saunderson,
Loose Ends,
Swell Maps,
Shoche,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Model 500,
Simply Red,
Essential Logic,
Zapp,
The Wake,
Q and Not U,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Harmonia,
Eric Copeland,
Television Personalities,
The Invisible,
Accadde A,
One Last Wish,
The Dead C,
Ultimate Spinach,
Metal Thangz,
Arab on Radar,
Ohio Players,
Echospace,
Pole,
Kurtis Blow,
Alton Ellis,
Graham Central Station,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.